Mikaira (Archived)

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There is a bug where if you shoot the guy with the shield up close with a sawed-off, like 10 will spawn in. Pretty cool ig.

"Mikaira (Archived)" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This is a very amateurish platformer shooter with pixelcrap "art", worse gameplay than the visuals (it shouldn't be possible given how bad the visuals are but they somehow managed), and a weak and pointless plot about fighting a gang and a robot as some kid goes out to get revenge on them. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it also doesn't make sense anyone would try to publish anything this badly made on Steam, either. It says "archived" but it hasn't been removed from Steam yet, so it's still here polluting the place. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. The technical execution of this game is shallow and simplistic, just enough to tick the boxes required to get somethi…

[h1]Before I played Mikaira (Archived), I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

not bad. very short and every loading zone unequiping your gun sucks, but the moivement and everythinjg feels pretty nice and the guns gun